Excuse me if this question was already answered, but the search box doesn't return anything relevant, and solutions returned from Google do not work after fiddling for an hour or two. Most of those posts were older than 5 years, so I thought I'd try my luck here.

NOTE: The "test" document was written only with the Verdana font face. It is in the correct file location, no spaces in the title, etc. I've even tried this (for grins) with a PDF of only pictures, but text was still recognized.

I have reinstalled xpdf and have tried copying font packages here and there and nothing works. I can provide more information as necessary. Thanks.